[vox] Rant: the suckiness of http://www.sectoor.de/ and thier "tor blacklisting"

[Shwaine]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, ME wrote:

> What is worse? Running a mail server is enough to get blacklisted, because
> I certainly do not run an irc server.
>

It seems you're not the only one with this criticism of Sectoor:

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2005/msg00113.html

This particular blacklist seems popular amongst IRC channels. Although I 
suspect a certain overly paranoid MUD admin I know probably also uses it. 
It does seem to be a poorly designed blacklist, although it is less than a 
year old, so perhaps it just needs to mature a bit more. Here's a "release 
announcement", although I use the term loosely because it's not a very 
formal announcement, from January of this year:

http://lists.blitzed.org/pipermail/bopm/2005-January/002297.html

I have to wonder how much of their misunderstanding that you run a 
legitimate mail server using a mixed host (client/server) comes from 
language issues. I note their English explanation on the tor page is a bit 
rusty. But this may also be an issue of people who are willing to slap a 
cludgy bandaid on something rather than come up with a concrete, well 
thought out solution using the attitude of "well, it's only a small baby 
we're throwing out with the bath water".